James 5:1

Woes On The Rich Who Oppress Others

¹ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

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Weep And Wail

Proverbs 11:28

He who trusts in his riches will fall. The righteous will flourish as a leaf on a branch.

Isaiah 13:6

Shout (wail) (howl) for the Day of Jehovah is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

James 4:13

Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit.

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

You will eat all you want. You will build nice houses and live in them.

Deuteronomy 32:15

Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation.

Nehemiah 9:25-26

And they took walled towns and a fat land. They became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees. They had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

Job 20:15-29

He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up.

Psalm 17:14

With your power (by your hand) rescue me from mortals, O Jehovah, from mortals who look forward only to this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied with it, and they leave what remains to their children.

Psalm 49:6-20

They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth.

Psalm 73:3-9

I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath. Righteousness delivers from death.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-14

I have seen a grievous evil under the sun. I have seen riches being hoarded by their owner to his downfall (distress).

Isaiah 22:12-13

In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Jeremiah 4:8

Dress in sackcloth, beat your breasts (mourn), and cry because Jehovah's burning anger has not turned back from us.

Jeremiah 9:23

This is what Jehovah says: Do not let wise people brag about their wisdom. Do not let strong people brag about their strength. Do not let rich people brag about their riches.

Ezekiel 19:2

Say: 'What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs.

Joel 1:5

Awake, you drunkards, and weep! Wail you drinkers of wine. The sweet wine is removed from your mouth.

Joel 1:11

Be ashamed you farmers. Cry you vinedressers. The wheat, the barley and the harvest of the field have perished.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth you ministers of my God! The meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.

Amos 6:6-7

You drink wine in bowls, and anoint yourselves with the finest oils. But you are not grieved because of the affliction of Joseph.

Micah 6:12

The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah's anger (rage) (wrath). He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!

Zechariah 11:2-3

Wail, You fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic ones are destroyed. Wail you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

Matthew 19:23-24

Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I tell you, it is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 6:24-25

Woe to you who are rich! You have received your reward.

Luke 12:16-21

He spoke an illustration to them: The land of a rich man produced well.

Luke 16:19-25

A rich man dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.

Luke 23:28-29

Jesus turned to them and said: Daughters of Jerusalem do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children.

1 Timothy 6:9-10

Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.

James 1:11

The sun rises with scorching heat and withers the grass. The flower falls off and its beauty perishes. So also the rich man will fade away in his pursuits.

James 2:6

You have dishonored the poor man. Do the rich oppress you, and personally drag you into court?

James 4:9

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Revelation 6:15-17

The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the military commanders, and the mighty men, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.